Month: Jan 2021

• The Wheels on the Bus

  

  While playground politics trundle on, let’s revert to an old favourite and arguably where the present penchant for political misdirection started to grow arms and legs. You’ve got it – the big, red, Brexit bus and those now infamous words: We send the EU £350m a week / let’s fund our NHS instead When Vote…

  Max Frances

  Jan 3, 2021

  Politics, Social Media, Society

  Boris, Brexit, Cameron, Charlatans, Crime, Cronyism, Cummings, Economy, EU, Grammar, NHS, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Referendum

• Sovereign Notions

  

  Frustrated by the circular arguments of the Brexit debate? Get a rum old sovereignty chaser down your neck for some unrestricted 2020 retrovision and a banging trade deal hangover cure. OK, cure is over-egging it, but it might help with the nausea. While it has been lazily punted about like a scuffed, old, patchy ball,…

  Max Frances

  Jan 1, 2021

  Politics, Society

  Authority, Brexit, Courts, EU, Europe, Government, Ireland, Law, Power, Sovereignty, Tony Blair, Trade Deal, Transition